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Are You Online More than 4 Hours a Day?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the then-you-have-a-problem dept.

R3 sent us an interesting report that talks asbout Belgian psychologists claiming that using the Internet for more than 4 hours a day is addictive behavior, and should be treated like alcoholism or any other addiction. If they try to take my laptop away, I'll bite them: I'm not addicted, I swear ;)"

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  1. Re:This is a load of crap by Trepidity · · Score: 3

    The newspaper today had a summary of a recent study about TV usage in the United States. Weird coincidence.

    Anyway, they said the average is around 7.5 hours/day per household. The most TV-addicted demographic are adult females, who average around 5 hours/day of TV-watching, then adult males, who average around 4 hours/day, then kids under 12, who average around 3 hours/day and finally teenagers, who average around 2.75 hours/day.

    Overall, it seems that the adults who complain that kids these days watch too much TV need to look at their own habits first.

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